Comparable Sales
Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.
No public-rights comparable sales meet the current evidence criteria. RELICT does not fill the table with research-only or licensed-only facts.
The Cleveland Museum of Art · John L. Severance Fund
Museum
Waves
late 1700s-early 1800s
Market Intelligence
Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.
Last known price—0 matched observed sales
Observed median—
Observed sales0
Artist index—
No rights-cleared normalized observed sale is attached to this artwork. No synthetic price history is shown.
Artist index unavailableNo completed public artist-index build exists.Artist-level context is not an artwork valuation.
Evidence ranked
Provenance
Public?–1999
(London Gallery, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1999–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Source provenance text
(London Gallery, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Exhibitions
PublicSource exhibition text
The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006). Rinpa (琳派). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 23-October 3, 2021). Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 121), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 13-November 10, 2004).
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Sourced Overview Evidence
Nakamura Hōchū painted waves on this handheld fan to bring coolness to the mind of its bearer. While fragile paper fans are often used for a single season, this one was cherished for its design. Someone carefully removed it from its folding apparatus and converted it into a hanging scroll for occasional enjoyment in an alcove.
The Cleveland Museum of Artconfidence 100%
Evidence state
0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 2 structured exhibitions.
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